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Earl Little’s controversial demise

Black and white photo of newspaper clipping reads: SET INQUEST THURSDAY IN STREET CAR DEATH/Coroner Gorsline to Conduct Inquiry into Fatal Injuries to Earl Little; Funeral Friday.

As Malcolm X described in his autobiography, his father’s death was believed by Lansing African Americans to have been the work of the Black Legion, a Ku Klux Klan-like hate group. They purportedly murdered him and then laid his body across the tracks for a streetcar to run over him. Malcom was six at the time.

1931
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Photo added by Walking Back to Georgia, “Find a Grave,” accessed from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8824282/earl-little, 7 April 2022